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Rededication and renaming of St. Paul's Gardens to the Peace Gardens showing (second left) Councillor Dorothy Walton JP, Lord Mayor and (first right) Jim Walton, Lord Mayor's Consort
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Title:Rededication and renaming of St. Paul's Gardens to the Peace Gardens showing (second left) Councillor Dorothy Walton JP, Lord Mayor and (first right) Jim Walton, Lord Mayor's Consort
Location:Sheffield_City_Centre
Date:1985/08/08
Date Period:1980-1999
Copyright::Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
Notes:

Memorial reads

Previously named St. Paul's Gardens but called by the people of Sheffield, The Peace Gardens and as such rededicated on Hiroshima Day, 8th August 1985 in the presence of three Hibakusha survivors of the atomic devastation of the city of Hiroshima.

'Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.'

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